Celadon Lamp

Porcelain: 15th-16th century; Mounts: mid 18th century 9 in. (22.9 cm) Citation Source image

This porcelain lamp is from the Long Quan [Lung-ch'üan] celadon kilns.The European practice of mounting porcelains with silver and gold embellishments began as early as the Middle Ages. This custom reached its apogee in eighteenth-century France, where the taste for Asian exo...

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2213
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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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